To round out the holiday season, Mary Alice O’Connor teamed up with her daughter Joan “J.P.” O’Connor and son-in-law Cotton Thompson for their annual cookie party.

A tradition since the 1970s, friends who stopped by the O’Connor home to sample confections and visit with Mary Alice, the woman who inspired the Fairy Godmother in the Disney version of “Cinderella,” included Police Commissioner Elise Stearns-Niesen; Woodbury University President Ken Nielsen and his wife, Rose; Community Development Director Sue Georgino and her husband, Vic; Ernie and Angela Burger; Bruce Lily and his wife, Leslie; Laurie Bleick; Walt and Lynne Meares; and Janet Killian.